Examining the Effects of Passing a Campus Carry Law: Comparing Campus Safety before and after Georgia's New Campus Carry Law

Autor/inn/en	McMahon-Howard, Jennifer; Scherer, Heidi L.; McCafferty, James T.
Titel	Examining the Effects of Passing a Campus Carry Law: Comparing Campus Safety before and after Georgia's New Campus Carry Law
Quelle	In: Journal of School Violence, 20 (2021) 4, S.430-444 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1538-8220
DOI	10.1080/15388220.2021.1930016
Schlagwörter	Weapons; State Legislation; Campuses; School Safety; Victims; School Violence; Fear; Crime; Longitudinal Studies; Student Attitudes; College Students; Police School Relationship; Conflict; Teacher Attitudes; Administrator Attitudes; College Faculty; College Administration; Comparative Analysis; Georgia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weapon; Waffe; Landesrecht; Victim; Opfer; School; Schools; Violence; Schule; Gewalt; Furcht; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Schülerverhalten; Collegestudent; Konflikt; Lehrerverhalten; Fakultät; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung
Abstract	Although there has been an increase in research on support for campus carry laws, few studies have examined how these laws influence campus safety. Using longitudinal data from a university sample, this study compares measures of campus safety before and after the adoption of a campus carry law. We found statistically significant increases in perceptions of campus as unsafe, fear of crime, lack of confidence in campus police, fearful conflicts, and carrying a gun on campus, but no change in violent victimization. Some changes differed for faculty/administrators, staff, and students. Also, in our exploratory multivariate analyses, we found that other factors could not explain much of the variation in changes in campus safety perceptions; these changes are likely due to allowing guns on campus. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01